secrets-detection SKILL.md skillA
secrets-detection from habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/secrets-detection@git:20260415.bb944baPins git:20260415.bb944ba in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers
- Path
ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/secrets-detection/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260415.bb944ba, committed Apr 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 6, 2026
- Size
- 8,907 bytes
- Repository stars
- 121
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Use when auditing a project for secrets committed to source control, setting up gitleaks, or hardening the "No secrets in source" harness constraint — covers scanning, baselining, configuration, and CI integration.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Secrets Detection Audit ## Overview Secrets in source code — API keys, tokens, passwords, private keys — are one of the most common and most damaging security failures. A single committed secret can grant an attacker access to production systems, and git history means the secret persists even after the file is deleted. Gitleaks is a SAST tool that scans git repositories for secrets using regex and entropy-based detection. It catches common patterns (AWS keys, GitHub tokens, private keys, connection strings) and supports custom rules via `.gitleaks.toml`. **Critical rule: Never assume a file is secret-free from visual inspection. Run the scanner. Encoded, split, or templated secrets are invisible to human review.** --- ## Audit Checklist ### For every project - [ ] Gitleaks is installed and available on the path - [ ] `gitleaks detect` runs cleanly against the current working directory - [ ] Git history has been scanned (`gitleaks detect` without `--no-git`) - [ ] A `.gitleaks.toml` exists if the project has known false positives - [ ] Gitleaks runs in CI and fails the build on findings - [ ] The HARNESS.md "No secrets in source" constraint is set to …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/secrets-detection@sha256:34ac1a4eb4a4f794The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260415.bb944ba, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_yjktbqeluob5xhec)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Apr 6, 2026 and Apr 15, 2026, about one every 9 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260415.bb944ba latest | 2026-04-15 | bb944ba | 8,907 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260406.f087f0e | 2026-04-06 | f087f0e | 8,902 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8907 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers · 121 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yjktbqeluob5xhec GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/secrets-detection GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/34ac1a4eb4a4f794d7293e8a759d039eea8595f91935b19c83fe1f3fedaa8c3c
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